Parenting
by Kirsten Olson
While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today's schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education -- the joy of learning.
by Joanne Kimes, R.J. Colleary, with Rebecca Rutledge, Ph.D.
Mood swings? Check. Eye rolls? Check. Slamming doors and easily annoyed teens? Check. With an equal dose of empathy and humor, Colleary and Kimes will expertly guide parents through this traumatic, tender, and (dare we say it) sometimes terrific part of raising kids.
by Jenifer Fox, M.Ed.
Your Child's Strengths will give parents and teachers the tools to discover strengths in three main areas: Activity Strengths, Relationship Strengths, and Learning Strengths.
by Tony Wagner
Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation’s schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn’t limited to low-income school districts: even our top schools aren’t teaching or testing the skills that matter most in the global knowledge economy.
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
So you’re knocked up, huh? Congratulations!
This is one of the most magical and miraculous times in your
life. But that doesn’t mean you have a free pass to shovel
crap in your mouth all day long! Now that you’re eating for two,
it’s more important than ever to stuff your face with the right
foods.
by Jennifer Wider, M.D.
In this compassionate, comprehensive guide, Dr. Jennifer Wider, a physician as well as the mother of two small children, delivers up-to-date medical information, candid answers to a host of questions, and expert advice on a range of postpartum issues
by Bruce J. Gevirtzman
Voted Teacher of the Year and Coach of the Year, Bruce Gevirtzman shares with us the results of his years spent talking with teenagers about topics from life and lust to depression and death.
by Lucy J. Puryear MD
In this informative, book, Puryear examines the emotional health issues associated with pregnancy and postpartum, providing an indispensable resource for expectant parents and for those who wish to become pregnant.
by Richard Louv
In this landmark work Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv brings together cutting-edge studies that pointed to direct exposure to nature as essential for a child's healthy physical and emotional development.
by Scott M. Shannon, MD
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Scott Shannon, a renowned child psychiatrist, sounds the clarion call on a raging epidemic: the overlabeling and overmedicating of our kids today.
by Rafe Esquith
In a rough Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by violence, there is an exceptional public school classroom called Room 56 . . . The fifth-graders inside are either immigrants or children of immigrants; most live in poverty and few speak English as their first language.
by Charlotte Mathes
Jungian psychoanalyst Charlotte Mathes suffered a parent's worst nightmare -- the death of her child. In this book, she describes her struggle to find meaning and wholeness in one of the most shattering of experiences.
